{"id":234307,"date":"2015-09-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"9f793383c7ded35a45b41a68520e461a"},"modified":"2015-09-20T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:00:00","slug":"paxi-in-the-large-diameter-centrifuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=234307","title":{"rendered":"Paxi in the Large Diameter Centrifuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/09\/paxi_in_the_large_diameter_centrifuge\/15610147-1-eng-GB\/Paxi_in_the_Large_Diameter_Centrifuge_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPaxi was placed in a Large Diameter Centrifuge gondola which normally housesresearchers&#8217; and students&#8217; experiments at ESA&#8217;s ESTEC establishment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs the centrifuge starts spinning, the relative g-levels within the gondola increase and this causes Paxi&#8217;s weight to increase. At 20 g, Paxi weighs 20 times what he normally does on Earth. As the centrifuge spins down, the g levels decrease and eventually when the centrifuge stops, return to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/09\/paxi_in_the_large_diameter_centrifuge\/15610147-1-eng-GB\/Paxi_in_the_Large_Diameter_Centrifuge_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPaxi was placed in a Large Diameter Centrifuge gondola which normally housesresearchers&#8217; and students&#8217; experiments at ESA&#8217;s ESTEC establishment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs the centrifuge starts spinning, the relative g-levels within the gondola increase and this causes Paxi&#8217;s weight to increase. At 20 g, Paxi weighs 20 times what he normally does on Earth. As the centrifuge spins down, the g levels decrease and eventually when the centrifuge stops, return to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}